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Free eBooks

This free eBook Chris Chats … about the good, the bad, the sad and the funny – vol 1 is one of a series of eBooks I plan to produce comprising selected short posts from my Chris Chats blog.

I hope you enjoy reading it and any feedback would be appreciated.

You are welcome to distribute this eBook for free to anyone you think might enjoy reading it.

CONTENTS
Jacques The Shark
Marysville Bushfire
Bogan Cavalier
Beware of Vampires
An Act Of Kindness
Corn Cobs, Remote Control & T.V.
Where’s My Cappuccino?
The Day The Table Collapsed
Pongo
Slackawritis
Good Old Days
Picture This
Stable Manure
Next Train WAH – Platform WAH – Leaving WAH
Namaste
O.P.P’s
Social Media Whirlpool
Manual Labour And Me
Box Brownie To Digital
Are You A Toad?
La La Falls Conquered
The Road To Kathmandu
Library Mayhem
Knit One Pearl Two
Fish And Chooks
Have Mercy
In Search Of Shoosh
Dumb Dumb Moment
Embarrassment Boots

Roy Boy

My memoir about growing up in the working class slum of Fitzroy during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Sabres Basketball eBook

Sandringham Sabres – The First 25 Years – 1974-99

Fast break your way through 25 years of history of the Sandringham Sabres (now known as Southern Basketballl Association)

In this e-book, snippetts, stories, photos, raw prawns, stats, results, awards, articles, reveal a community of dedicated basketball enthusiasts who shared their dreams, achievements, frustrations and disappointments to help create a large basketball association where 1000’s of children and adults now play in a eight-court stadium.
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High resolution copy (28MB)
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Free eBook

Chris Chats .. about the good, the bad, the sad & the funny - selected short posts - vol. 1 Chris Chats Volume One

Books I’ve Read

Chris's bookshelf: read

Beau Geste
5 of 5 stars
Beau Geste
by P.C. Wren
Jaws
4 of 5 stars
Jaws
by Peter Benchley
Fahrenheit 451
4 of 5 stars
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4 of 5 stars
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
5 of 5 stars
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
by Alex Kershaw

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Current Writing Project

A second memoir. Roy Boy was my first published in 2023.

Other Projects Planned

1. Screenplay
2. Books on street photography
3. Podcast
4. And many more – stay tuned :)

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